Pennsylvania Genealogy and History Books

 

• History
  • The Germans and Swiss settlements of colonial Pennsylvania
    A study of the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch
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  • The Wyoming Valley in 1892
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  • A Compendium of Edenburg and Edenburg People
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• Berks County
  • Reading
    • The history of Trinity Lutheran Church, Reading, Pa., 1751-1894
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• Chester County
  • West Chester
    • West Chester, Past and Present
      Centennial souvenir with celebration proceedings
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• Cumberland County
  • Carlisle
    • Carlisle, Old and New
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    • Early History and Growth of Carlisle
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• Dauphin County
  • History of the sesqui-centennial of Paxtang Church, September 18, 1890
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• Franklin County
  • Chambersburg
    • Chambersburg in the Colony and the Revolution
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• Huntingdon County
  • A history of the Juniata Valley and its people
    • Volume 1
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    • Volume 2
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    • Volume 3
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• Juniata County
  • A history of the Juniata Valley and its people
    • Volume 1
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    • Volume 2
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    • Volume 3
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• Lancaster County
  • Lancaster
    • The Story of Lancaster
      Old and new; being a narrative history of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, form 1730 to the centennial year 1918
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  • An Old Turnpike-Road
    With mere mention of some persons and places incident therto.
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• Lehigh County
  • Catasauqua
    • Early History and Reminiscences of Catasauqua in Pennsylvania
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  • Muhlenberg College, a Quarter-centennial Memorial Volume
    Being a history of the college and a record of its men.
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• Mifflin County
  • A history of the Juniata Valley and its people
    • Volume 1
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    • Volume 2
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    • Volume 3
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• Montgomery County
  • A history of the Goshenhoppen Reformed charge, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (1727-1819)
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• Perry County
  • A history of the Juniata Valley and its people
    • Volume 1
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    • Volume 3
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• Philadelphia County
  • Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in Olden Time
    Being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the City and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes of manners and customs, and the city and country in their local changes and improvements.
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  • Philadelphia, the Place and the People
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  • Quarter-centennial memorial, 1860-1885 - North Broad Street Church
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  • A sketch of St. James's Parish
    From its foundation in 1807 to 1899
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• Families
  • Searight
    • A Record of the Searight Family [also written " Seawright"]
      Established in America by William Seawright, Who Came from Near Londonderry, in the North of Ireland, to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about the Year 1740. With an Account of His Descendants as Far as Can Bo Ascertained. By James A. Searight. Uniontown, Pa., 1893. 8vo, pp. 228.
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• Military
  • Civil War
    • History of the First battalion Pennsylvania
      Six months volunteers and 187th regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry six months and three years service, civil war, 1863-1865
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